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Stahl's Fashion Film on a Port & Company hat. Pushing to see how much I can do with the cut HPV. My first wrap around, came out pretty good.

Or a quick fix for just that small area ..... might be just as easy to use some parchment paper and an iron at home for just that little spot.

Au contraire mon frere.. 8 minutes from my download brings back this version. Now, I admit, it's a quick, dirty, effort but just showing it's entirely possible. The text (along with the image) was quickly cleaned in Photoshop by simply desaturating the color, adjusting the levels, and using the burn and dodge tools to tighten the contrast to just 2 colors. And though the text was traced in Inkscape (and left not too legible in a couple of areas) I would strongly suggest replacing it. AuContraireMonFrere.eps

Sounds like that party is going to be a blast! Remind me to bring my own food...

wheel accents wrapped with orange oralite the circuit board is black reflective (white reflective at night) almost invisible in daytime.

f0ound a soap dish under my cabinet and turned it into a jewelry holder. I don't need one but it is cute. Also some scarves I am monogramming and selling. Big seller at Christmas.

Was bored today after a tire change and a semi tow out yesterday. waiting on Monday to come so i can order more shop supplies and a plotter ,heat press, and a halogen light cooker to do mugs in. So I made him a sign from some scrap laying around.

Love my new project for my best friend. Her son plays college ball on full scholarship so she is die-hard bb mom. My first Big bling project.

Irfanview will preview the eps format. (http://www.irfanview.com/) IInkscape supposed to open ai. (http://inkscape.org/en/) I've never had any luck with it though. This is interesting, though it didn't work for me; Change the .ai extention and it should open with foxit or adobe reader. http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2008/02/24/opening-adobe-illustrator-ai-files-when-you-don-t-have-adobe-illustrator.aspx If all that fails, here's a free .ai viewer; http://aiviewer.com/

I bet he didn't use a pillow to help get an even press. I have made a bunch of those vests and the nearby sewn hems are thick enough to cause problems without a press pillow or a press pad. They hold the platen off the base enough that it won't get even pressure. If it isn't screwed up you should be able to re-press it no problem.

You can I saw a vid the other day showed how to press all over the hat once you get the hang of it. I will see if I can find it.

yup it does, had to do it in two presses tho, too big. Thanks, all, starting to dig deeper in to the HPV, and it's a disease.

nice

That looks good joker. Never thought of that.

Love the color. works well on that hat.

That looks really nice.

I found out from my husband it was like this before he wore it. Good to know the vinyl works well generally. I am looking at heat presses and will be doing all our stuff in the near future. I will call our friend who did them and see if he can repress for now. Also, I would want to know if there was an issue with my stuff so I could fix it

add a couple registration marks to the top and see if that helps - 1 set in each color on top of each other

if only I had 1/10th your talent at that one , , ,

You can buy the siser easy weed here http://www.uscutter.com/Heat-Transfer-Vinyl Here is a canvas tote bag i did with heat transfer. It will stick to alot of material

Find them myself mark-s

That's easy enough. Take your original "face" and add an outside contour - fill it with a light color, like white, and put it behind the original "face". Then cut the black "face" out from the white contour and voila - a single color design that works well on dark colored glass... The bottom example is basically the same, but instead of adding a contour, I simply created a filled shape the same as the "face" and then cut the "face" out of that, so there is no white border outside of the "face".

Thanks guys. at least now I know what the common practice is. I'm still learning the business and it's great to come on here and learn from some of the more experience people.

I take 10-15% off depending on the order and if I can justify it I'll make a couple 18x24 coroplast signs for them to use at fundraising events. Seems that every time I do this my business picks up for at least a few weeks from word of mouth.

ok i have done allot of research and calling people and manufactures. on how to fix this problem. To put in a nut shell an ionizer will fix it and it does. wow!!!!!! the difference is huge. first off during the day i am an industrial electrician and night i an a helper for my wifes business im an not an expert at all about static. it is electricity but it has different properties. so i will try to do my best on how things work and why they do the crazy things that they do. the best i can please feel free for anyone to correct me if i make an error here is a web site of the basics of static http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/static.html if you read that you would know that vinyl is an insulator it doesn't conduct electricity but the positive and neg electrons are still charging the vinyl roll kinda like a capacitor it will build up a charge and then zap in most of our cases its the motherboard the static cant be wiped off -- cant be taken to ground (grounded out of the vinyl) its an insulator the electricity doesn't flow from left to right from top to bottom where ever the charge was created it stays. grounding the cutter is kinda a fix but not the real fix. i had a great web site what explained it but i cant find it now but this was there explanation the vinyl is negative charged so it lacks positive charged ions and since the cutter is conductive it will take the positive charge ions away from the vinyl. now it is positive charge and lacks neg. untill the cutter cant store any more pos charged ions they can only be stacked so high. at this point it is balanced the cutter is full the vinyl is full. if you get to this point you probably will already see problems. cutter stopping cross cutting ripping from top to bottom what ever your complaint is its is static. why its because the positive ions in a sence are stacked so high there falling over and crossing over circuitry. its jumping across diodes, resistors , processors and more. i wish i had the excellent pictures but i don't. but if you ground the cutter it will keep taking away positive charged ions till the vinyl is so neg charged it cant have anymore neg charge built up on it. that isnt a good thing either it does work foe most but still not 100% the right way. talking to one guy who is an electronics guru was telling me the best way to protect was add components to the cutter and my thought i would rather eliminate the static. well first easiest way is humidity--- about 60% will start to help and 65% will really start to eliminate the static. we tried that and ya right try to maintain humidity in a place not easy to do and it starts to get uncomfortable but there was a very big difference in cutting allot better. the next way is to neutralize the ions if you have vinyl that is neg charge and a cutter is positive charge you get an ionizer and it will neutralize all the ions. i thought it was a joke so i took our air cleaner ionizer and it helped a little not allot. but we did see a difference so i started to look for a new one a bigger one a better one ok downside of an ionizer the cheapest one i found was $1000 and it really goes up from there. but i happen to work at an industrial place that was getting ride of allot of over head ionizers i got a bunch of them and o my the cutter has been going for an hr now and there is almost no static on the vinyl it doesnt cling to itself it doesnt crack and pop when its unrolled even after cutting very detailed pieces 6 feet long or more. how i have it set up is rollers and the vinyl sitting on the table -- then the ionizer ---- then the cutter works great the ionizer is 24 inches long with 2 blowers fits perfect and its made for over head but i have it upside down still no problems. no more mother boards for me --------- im using one and i see a huge difference. i have allot more for backups don't think i will need them. here is the web site of the one i have but mine is an older model http://www.esdsystems.com/ESDCatalog/Ionizers/Electronic/Overhead/OverheadElectronics/62250/ its about $1100 new these are older but great if you have any other questions feel free to ask me i would like to help others solve there static problems. kennethsokolinski@comcast.net my next project will be an auto feed. she uses alot of easy weed and the weight of it is too much for the cutter to pull off the roll. so small motor, limit switches, and gearing should fix that problem. and then next my big thing that she wants is to be able to cut in Linux. we would like to get rid of windows all together. i have worked on it a little before but i still would like to but thats down the road.